Mortality of central nervous system tumors in pediatric patients of Brazil from 1979 to 2019.
Bruno Pellozo CerqueiraJayane MendesLuma CarvalhoPedro Arthur Moreira AredesRhuann Pontes Dos Santos SilvaEdna E GouveiaFelipe Câncio NascimentoAdilson J M de OliveiraPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2022)
To our knowledge, this is the first description of the mortality rate epidemiology of brain/CNS tumors in children in Brazil over 40 years. Furthermore, tumor malignancy, hospitals, and the Southeast and Northeast region of Brazil are factors associated with a higher mortality rate.